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Biography: Claude A. "Sandy" Thomas
Sandy Thomas has three decades of experience in
high technology, with a focus on business solutions for the financial,
healthcare and manufacturing industries. Since 1997, his consulting
services have included developing strategic business plans, creating
growth and restructuring options, and facilitating a number of M&A
transactions. He was the interim COO and is a current board member of a
health care software ASP. For three years he was a director, member of
the Executive Committee and Chairman of Strategy & Finance for a
public web development firm focused on the financial industry. He is a
certified Independent Consultant for Siebel Systems to deliver key
account sales seminars about big-ticket opportunity management.
After service as an Army officer, he was Assistant to the President of the Wall Street Division of Electronic Data Systems (EDS). For the Chicago region of Coopers & Lybrand he started a new Investment Industry Practice, which helped financial services clients design and implement strategic information systems. Joining Digital Equipment Corporation in 1986, he was the first Global VP of the new Financial Industry Applications business unit. Revenues from the financial industry tripled in the first four years from $250 million to $750 million, creating a new strategic business unit and a world-wide integrated profit center.
Moving to Atlanta with FFMC (now First Data) he was SVP corporate account sales management and also CEO of International Banking Technologies and COO of a financial software division. Later, as EVP for CheckFree, he managed the $170 million acquisition of an Atlanta banking technology firm. He sold a non-strategic unit for $20 million, restructured two other units to breakeven, and repositioned the new Software Solutions division for 22% revenue growth.
Sandy holds a BE cum laude in Chemical Engineering from Vanderbilt University and an MBA in Marketing & Finance with honors from Washington University. He completed the International Executive program at INSEAD in France. He is a member of Society of International Business Fellows where he and the Class of 2001 spent two weeks in China meeting with political and business leaders. He is the author of numerous articles on the application of information technology to the financial services industry in journals such as American Banker, Banking, Industrial Marketing, and the Boston Globe. He is a FAA Commercial pilot and aircraft owner.
sandy.thomas@mindspring.com (770) 612-8221
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